The Visual Geometry Group (VGG) in Oxford developed a five-step guide to compile a large dataset, and applied these instructions to images of the celebrities in the Internet Movie Database (IMDB).
The VGGFace dataset [1]} consists of over 2.6 million images from 2'622 different celebrities, with about five percent of these images showing profile faces, the others being mostly frontal.
The extended VGGFace2 [2]} dataset consists about three million images of 9'131 identities with facial images varying in pose, background, age and illumination, yet all images are of relatively high resolution.
